This day one advantage of code was pretty neat looking.

https://twitter.com/gereleth/status/1730495736070938786?s=09

Code here: https://github.com/gereleth/aoc_python/blob/main/src/year2023/day01vis.py

Ahh I see how someone did it.

https://github.com/immannino/advent-of-go/blob/master/cmd/2023.go#L30-L40

I could have made my search smarter using a prefix search rather than scanning the full buffer for each iteration.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de haha! I’m sure they had fun working around stuff like nineight

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Dang. Really going overboard with this!

@prologic@twtxt.net I didn’t have to do much backtracking. I parsed into an AST-ish table and then just needed some lookups.

The part 2 was pretty easy to work into the AST after.

https://git.sour.is/xuu/advent-of-code-2023/commit/c894853cbd08d5e5733dfa14f22b249d0fb7b06c

My code is here. https://git.sour.is/xuu/advent-of-code-2023

Day 2 used lots of Cut and Split.

Oof. Its quite everywhere here in my area. Hope its not too bad there.

@prologic@twtxt.net oh snap!

If anyone is doing advent of code this year i created a private leader board for twtxters! 3463928-93bf7cfa

@prologic@twtxt.net you must not have any friends with plex shares. I got one.

@prologic@twtxt.net I long ago moved my evernote content to joplin.

Neat.. Gitea cloud for a hosted alternative to github and gitlab. https://blog.gitea.com/gitea-cloud/

Interesting thing happening over on Xitter. Apparently some of the women in tech accounts are being exposed as being run by men that hire women to pose for images/videos. They would be invited to tech conferences but would always drop out last minute.

fake women in tech

Makes me wonder if maybe there is need for a sort of verifiable web of trust is needed where influencers can be proven as authentic by others. This will only get worse as AI generative content gets pushed into our feeds.

@darch@neotxt.dk webmentions are dispatched from here https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/branch/main/internal/post_handler.go#L160-L169

@prologic@twtxt.net its not.. There are going to be 1000s of copy cat apps built on AI. And they will all die out when the companies that have the AI platforms copy them. It happened all the time with windows and mac os. And iphone.. Like flashlight and sound recorder apps.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

@prologic@twtxt.net the going theory is that openAI announced a new product that pretty much blew up the project of one of the board members. So that board member got 3 others to vote to fire Sam.

I remember playing a bunch of Tetris style games with my sister we would find on BBSs back in the day. I remember one that was a hexigon style one where the falling pieces were built of hexigons and you had to have them fall in place.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I lasted for a long time.. Not sure where or when it was “got”. We had been having a cold go around with the kiddos for about a week when the wife started getting sicker than normal. Did a test and she was positive. We tested the rest of the fam and got nothing. Till about 2 days later and myself and the others were positive. It largely hasn’t been too bad a little feaver and stuffy noses.

But whatever it was that hit a few days ago was horrible. Like whatever switch in my head that goes to sleep mode was shut off. I would lay down and even though I felt sleepy, I couldn’t actually go to sleep. The anxiety hit soon after and I was just awake with no relief. And it persisted that way for three nights. I got some meds from the clinic that seemed to finally get me to sleep.

Now the morning after I realized for all that time a part of me was missing. I would close my eyes and it would just go dark. No imagination, no pictures, nothing. Normally I can visualize things as I read or think about stuff.. But for the last few days it was just nothing. The waking up to it was quite shocking.

Though its just the first night.. I guess I’ll have to see if it persists. 🤞

So.. Of y’all that had covid. Did you have at the end a night where for no reason your brain amped up to 11 and can’t sleep at all? It happened to me last night and my FIL the night before.

I went to bed at 8 and woke up full on anxiety attack at 12 and could not calm my head until around 7 am. Today has sucked a lot.

@eapl.me@eapl.me are ISPs still injecting code into HTTP in this the year 2023? I remember getting notices that my comcast modem is out of date pushed into websites back a decade ago.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci predicting weather is literally a step up from the 3 body problem into n-body chaos. AI is just statistics pushed up into chaos. The future of computing is indistinguishable from magical incantations

The AI bubble is now upon us!

I feel for ya. I have used tftp for two things in the past. Copying an image to a Cisco router to flash. And doing a network install because I didn’t have a flash drive handy.

Really?? I have not yet seen this warning. Using ublock origin.

Suuuuure. If someone could run a quantum algorithm on a smart phone that would be novel

@movq@www.uninformativ.de time to write your own browser? Or at least a fork maintained outside the EU?

I suppose the p90/p50 would be higher. Right? I never remember which way that funnel goes.

@prologic@twtxt.net in the article they say they have a p99 of 15ms reading historical data. Which is pretty nuts.. Aside from having close to 900TB of SSD…

Read this interesting retro about discords migration path from Mongo to Cassandra to now ScyllaDB.

https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages

Oh. I pulled up the feed and its at eli.li instead of theoatmeal.com

@prologic@twtxt.net curious that this feed has a image from a 3rd party domain.

@mckinley@twtxt.net you got some radiation issues? I am guessing this is non ECC rams.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I wish more standardization around distributed issues and PRs within the repo ala git-bug was around for this. I see it has added some bridge tooling now.

This is some cool development for the go 1.22 standard http mux. Its adding the ability to have path vars and define methods for handlers. Also the errors are quite helpful if you have conflicting paths!

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/better-http-server-routing-in-go-122/

@prologic@twtxt.net I have seen these screen shots. But have not yet seen them in actuality. I use ublockOrigin. Maybe it gets these too unlike adblock.

For android I have revanced.. The only place I get ads is on TV. I haven’t found a replacement there.

jellyfin is also a good alternative with free apps for your phone.

I like how you can just toss out partitions and not have to worry about sizing them right.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that and malformed XML errors were hostile AF to users that came across them.

So far it all seems prey snappy. No long pauses when pulling up threads at all.

@prologic@twtxt.net I do similar. Though probably much more simple.. I have CGNAT and use wireguard to VMs to punch through for stuff like HTTP/SSH from external.

And for SMTP I have smart hosts on the VMs that will store anf forward to my mailbox if the connection goes down.

@prologic@twtxt.net I find the L2 mode where you have one interface and multiple hosts to be tricky. Its best if you are trying to make a full mesh style. But then all hosts need to be able to see one another.

I have had more success using point-to-point connections where there are only two ends to each interface. It means you have a ton of interfaces and udp ports. but you can share the host IP across the interfaces. Add to that a simple router proto ala OSPF or RIP and you can navigate around not having a full meshnet.

I have dozens of localnet wireguard connections and many more connections to others that use bgp for route propagation.

@prologic@twtxt.net we need to finally break away from twtxt URLs and embrace @nick@server to webfinger lookups.

@prologic@twtxt.net what is the maxlen one should keep in mind here? Like say if I was charing the collected works of Shakespeare? Or maybe just a gpg keychain?

moved my yarn to a new server.. will see if it still has the slow cache issue.

cc: @prologic@twtxt.net

@prologic@twtxt.net I had a peering to NNTP back in the day. That would be neat to setup.

I like FIDO2 as a replacement for passwords. But you gotta keep track of the little dongle

@prologic@twtxt.net took with my phones 10x zoom

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yah we had a clear day and lucked out.